trying to find that easiest to use editor. been down this road so many times and end up coding by hand most of the time. been using <a href="http://tacosw.com/index.html">Taco HTML Edit</a> but would like a total site builder. Been looking at sites and the builders and guess I need to spend some $$ and get an editor that will do the quick build and publish thing if I am going to do the bookstore and other things too. so with that in mind here are some of the candidates:

<a href="http://www.dotsw.com/sitestudio/index.html">Site Studio</a>

I kind of like this one. The big problem is that you seem to be limited to their selection of templates and page layouts. The layouts isn't a problem as they include raw html but the templates aren't exactly what I want to be using. maybe a way to change them but I haven't seen it in the few minutes I have taken with it so far.

<a href="http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/">Dreamweaver MX 2004</a>

This is one hell of a program! A lot more than I need at present and I would just about have to get back into building sites to afford it. But… I am taking the time to try and learn it. Or at least something about it. I suspect that it will do the things I want to do but I am not sure I'll be willing to spend the time with it it needs to really shine. It's on sale for another 2 days at the company site at a hundred off regular price. Still 299 but with the savings in time and amount of work to build a site I am starting to think it's worth the price.

<a href="http://ragesw.com/webdesign.php">WebDesign</a>

This one I have not taken the time with that it deserves. I'll try to correct that within the next couple of days. Less than 30 bucks makes it attractive but…

But the winner is:

<a href="%3Ctable%20bgcolor=%22%23ffffff%22%20width=%22300%22%20border=%221%22%3E%0A%09%3Ctr%3E%0A%09%09%3Ctd%20width=%2250%25%22%3E%3CBR%3E%0A%3CCENTER%3E%3Ch2%3EBOX%20ENGRAVING%20%3CBR%3Eand%20MARKING%3C/h2%3E%0A%3CP%3EPrecision%20Laser%20Engraving%3C/P%3E%0A%09%3CB%3E(205)%20884-3165%3CBR%3E%3CBR%3E%0A%091910%20Cook%20Springs%20Road%3CBR%3E%0A%09Pell%20City,%20Alabama%2035125%3CBR%3E%3CBR%3E%0A%09email:%20%3Ca%20href=%22mailto:boxengrave@aol.com%22%3Eboxengrave@aol.com%3C/a%3E%3CBR%3E%0A%3CBR%3E%3C/B%3E%0A%09%09%3C/td%3E%0A%09%3C/tr%3E%0A%3C/table%3E%0A%3Ctable%20bgcolor=%22%23ffffff%22%20width=%22300%22%20border=%221%22%3E%0A%09%3Ctr%3E%0A%09%09%3Ctd%20width=%2250%25%22%3E%3CBR%3E%0A%3CCENTER%3E%3Ch2%3EBOX%20ENGRAVING%20%3CBR%3Eand%20MARKING%3C/h2%3E%0A%3CP%3EPrecision%20Laser%20Engraving%3C/P%3E%0A%09%3CB%3E(205)%20884-3165%3CBR%3E%3CBR%3E%0A%091910%20Cook%20Springs%20Road%3CBR%3E%0A%09Pell%20City,%20Alabama%2035125%3CBR%3E%3CBR%3E%0A%09email:%20%3Ca%20href=%22mailto:boxengrave@aol.com%22%3Eboxengrave@aol.com%3C/a%3E%3CBR%3E%0A%3CBR%3E%3C/B%3E%0A%09%09%3C/td%3E%0A%09%3C/tr%3E%0A%3C/table%3E%0Ahttp://www.optima-system.com/pagespinner/">PageSpinner</a>

I just couldn't pay the price on dreamweaver. PageSpinner was 30 and worth every penny. I have hit a wall on a script but that is the os i think. Gonna have to look into it but was able to figure a workaround.

Was able to take the jville.net site apart and rebuild it in a couple of days. nothing changed but now to update it I only have a few files to modify and then republish. or thats the theory. Redid about 50 pages or so tonight in a couple of hours. The includes make it nice. now to figure out how to use apple script to automate some of the basics and interface with filemaker and I will be about there. Getting closer.

Got the basic fields setup in a database for the business directory today. now to figure out the other fields that it has to have before starting and having to backtrack… like that's gonna happen! been thinking on the book database and both brick/mortor store and the estore and think I can do it. will take a while but it looks like I can get there at some point. got the filemaker book yesterday! now to find time to study it. it had a full copy of the book on the disk too so got it loaded in the iBook for anytime reading.

tis late and I gotta get up and try to push a couple of trees over once daylight gets here so will close for now…

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